Watch The Oculus Rift Get Torn To Pieces In Glorious Stop Motion

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As long as I can remember, I’ve disassembled (and sometimes even reassembled!) every gadget I could get my hands on.

But for some reason, gadget teardown photos and videos — so popular across the Interwebs whenever Apple or Samsung release some new thing — have never really done it for me.

But this? This I like.

The latest in a stopmotion series from Vsauce, the increasingly massive network of geek-centric YouTube channels, the video tears apart the $2 billion dollar headset in about as much detail as you could possibly cram into 2 minutes and ten seconds. And because they fill the gaps in time with little onscreen bits of trivia, you might actually learn something!

And seriously, it’s neat as hell. Now I want to see everything torn apart like this.

It’s actually kind of amazing how simple the Rift looks (emphasis on “looks”) under the hood.

OverviewOculus is a technology company revolutionizing the way people experience video games. The company’s first product, the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, is currently in development and is set to launch in 2013. The company was founded by Palmer Luckey and veterans of RedOctane, developers of the acclaimed Guitar Hero series; Scaleform, the #1 user interface software in the gaming; and Gaikai, …